Don Rebel stories, Page 137
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Mercifully, Central Valley football wins state title
The most unique year in our lifetime is coming to an end. With so many mass starts and stops, highs and lows, just about all walks of life were affected by the coronavirus in 2020. High school sports were no different. The first two and a half months of the...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: North Allegheny dominates in pool
The most unique year in our lifetime is coming to an end. With so many mass starts and stops, highs and lows, just about all walks of life were affected by the coronavirus in 2020. High school sports were no different. The first two and a half months of the...
Trib 10: Newcomers dominate boys basketball power rankings
Welcome to another season of the weekly Trib HSSN power rankings. Each Thursday during the season, Trib HSSN will unveil the Trib 10, declaring which are the best district teams, period. Well, at least for that particular week. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. On the boys side of our...
Trib HSSN preseason state girls basketball rankings
The WPIAL has long been a hotbed for talent in girls basketball. The 2020 PIAA basketball playoffs back that up. The girls basketball state playoffs completed the second round and were down to the final 48 teams preparing for the quarterfinals in the six classifications. District 7 had 10 teams...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: WPIAL freshmen make sudden impact
The most unique year in our lifetime is coming to an end. With so many mass starts and stops, highs and lows, just about all walks of life were affected by the coronavirus in 2020. High school sports were no different. The first two and a half months of the...
Trib HSSN preseason state boys basketball rankings
When Trib HSSN last ranked the top teams in Pennsylvania, most of the second-round games in the 2020 PIAA basketball playoffs had just been completed with the quarterfinals looming. However, what was hoped to be a brief interruption to the state basketball playoffs never materialized. A delay of days turned...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Knoch dominates court proceedings
The most unique year in our lifetime is coming to an end. With so many mass starts and stops, highs and lows, just about all walks of life were affected by the coronavirus in 2020. High school sports were no different. The first two and a half months of the...
PIHL standings through Dec. 13, 2020
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday. Because of Gov. Tom Wolf’s mandate to shut down interscholastic sports due to the rise in covid-19 cases across Pennsylvania, there will be no PIHL hockey games until Jan. 4, 2021 at the earliest. Team – Wins – Losses...
Chartiers Valley hockey comes charging out the gate
While the high school winter sports season was trying to get off the ground in December, high school hockey was into its second month of ice action. One of the PIHL Class A teams that galloped out of the gate swiftly was Chartiers Valley. The Colts led the way in...
Bishop Canevin volleyball shows championship-caliber character during emotional season
The 2020 season was a teeter-totter of emotions for the Bishop Canevin girls volleyball team. It started with the very real fear that there would be no season at all, featured the joy of great success on the court and included the tragic loss of their beloved coach. “This group...
Chartiers Valley girls keep winning streak alive with win over game Baldwin squad
Chartiers Valley waited exactly nine months to pick up their 59th consecutive victory toward breaking a state record winning streak. Now the Colts will have to wait another four weeks before attempting to win No. 60. The top-ranked girls Class 5A team in the district and the state bottled up...
Schedules altered as WPIAL high school basketball season tips off
Welcome to opening day of the 2020-21 winter sports season. Also, welcome to the final night of high school sports for 2020. In a year of strangeness, this seems about right. With many contests set for the tip off of the boys and girls high school basketball campaign Friday, the...
Trib HSSN 2020-21 WPIAL Class A girls basketball preseason breakdown
Getting to the WPIAL girls basketball finals will take more dedication and focus than ever this season. Teams will have to navigate an invisible opponent in covid-19 that could test them more than a section rival. But the reward of a WPIAL championship will drive girls basketball teams across Western...
Trib HSSN 2020-21 WPIAL Class A boys basketball preseason breakdown
This will surely be a boys basketball season like no other. WPIAL teams saw their seasons stalled by a three-week pause that starts Saturday, a schedule change unlikely to be the last as the year progresses. Teams all have hopes of hoisting a WPIAL championship trophy in March, much like...
PIHL standings through Dec. 6, 2020
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Dec. 6: Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA North Allegheny, 3-1-0 = 6 Peters Township, 3-1-0 = 6 Canon-McMillan, 2-0-0 = 4 Mt. Lebanon, 2-1-0 = 4 Pine-Richland, 2-1-0 = 4 Seneca Valley,...
Basketball tips off this week on TribLive High School Sports Network
After a week of rest in between scholastic sports seasons, we turn our attention fully to winter sports with pucks and round balls this week only on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We tip off the 2020-21 high school hoops season with several WPIAL boys and girls basketball games...
Trib HSSN 2020-21 WPIAL Class 6A girls basketball preseason breakdown
Getting to the WPIAL girls basketball finals will take even more dedication and focus than ever this season. Teams will have to navigate an invisible opponent in covid-19 that could test them more than a section rival. But a reward of a WPIAL championship will drive girls basketball teams across...
Trib HSSN 2020-21 WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball preseason breakdown
This will surely be a boys basketball season like no other. WPIAL teams are set to tip off Friday and embark on a masked journey through a schedule likely to change many times as the year progresses. Teams all have hopes of hoisting a WPIAL championship trophy in March, much...
Pine-Richland’s Cole Spencer earns Trib HSSN Football Player of the Year honors
Following in the footsteps of one of the best quarterbacks the WPIAL has produced, Cole Spencer didn’t blink. Spencer passed Phil Jurkovec for most wins at Pine-Richland and now has matched the current Boston College signal caller in leading the Rams to WPIAL and PIAA football championships. “Cole Spencer is...
Head of the Class: Trib HSSN Football Player, Coach of the Year for each classification
Back in the day, when a student did well in the classroom, they were sometimes moved to the front of the class. Well this is the Trib HSSN version of that. Yes, consider this a virtual classroom. There were plenty of players and coaches who stood out for their performances...
Trib 10: WPIAL football teams had record-tying weekend in Hershey
For the fifth time in the 33-year history of the PIAA playoffs, three WPIAL football champions returned home from the central part of the state with PIAA gold. It is tied for the most PIAA championships won in a year by WPIAL teams. Pine-Richland in Class 5A, Thomas Jefferson in...
Trib HSSN state football rankings for Dec. 1, 2020
The 2020 high school football campaign is complete, and it goes in the record books as a season like no other. Right when most teams would be preparing for a Week Zero contest in late August, there were major concerns that there would not even be high school football this...
Trib HSSN Football Team of the Week: Central Valley
Mark Lyons had been to the top of the WPIAL mountain top four times, including each of the last two years. But as time expired in the 2020 PIAA Class 3A championship game, the only coach in the 11-year history of Central Valley football felt something completely different. “You’re in...
PIHL standings through Nov. 29, 2020
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Nov. 29. Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA North Allegheny, 3-1-0 = 6 Peters Township, 3-1-0 = 6 Mt. Lebanon, 2-1-0 = 4 Pine-Richland, 2-1-0 = 4 Seneca Valley, 2-1-0 = 4...
Trib HSSN Player of the Week: Eli Jochem, Pine-RichlandVideo
Pine-Richland has had great contributions from many players in finishing 11-0 and capturing district and state championships for the second time in school history. When it came to the Rams’ high-powered passing attack, they had a dynamic duo. If last week’s HSSN Player of the Week, senior quarterback Cole Spencer...
